Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Article the First was the first proposed amendment to the Constitution. It's original goal was to give each state a representative to the House for every 30,000 people. It's original text was:

"Article the first... After the first enumeration required by the first article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons."

I remember playing the NES version of the game on the GC version of Animal Crossing as a hidden unlockable secret. Wario should go back to living in the woods after making this sad excuse for a puzzle game.

It seems Nintendo wanted yet another Tetris clone, and Wario's Woods seemed so illogically developed. Kinda reminds me of Hatris. They had a need to sell this game for an easy buck, yet in their rush they made a mediocre experience.

Now there were a few more versions made such as the graphically superior SNES version, but when the gameplay is flawed so much, there's nothing graphics can do to help it.

While Capcom canned the Gameboy Color remake of the the original game, that didn't stop them from developing on the system completely. They made a "kiddie" version of Resident Evil for the GBC near the end of it's lifespan.

While the original game on GBA was a no-show in America, Nintendo did bring the DS sequel here. I bought it and found it a nice little Warioware-ish game. Japan got the Wii sequel this year, and it seemed like it was stuck in the land of the rising sun. Now we are getting it in Feb. of this year.

Japanese gamers will get a port of the PS3 remake of one of the best Xbox games that rebooted one of the best franchises on NES. Confused? You should be. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't buy it. It does feature a very easy mode where Ryu auto-blocks and auto-dodges everything. No details on an American release but it shouldn't be too long after the Japanese release in February.

The election of 1800 saw incumbent John Adams go back up for re-election. This time both parties were mad at each other. Both the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans both threw baseless claims at one another.

Nintendo had a good showing this holiday year. Thanks to the 3DS bundles plus good deals from retail stores has push the system to about 325% more sales. Nintendo sold about 500,000 Wiis on friday alone as well. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword pulled impressive numbers as well becoming the fastest selling Zelda game ever.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Apparently PSOne Classics and other older systems available now on your PSP will not work on your shiny new PSVita for awhile. There's no dates of when it will be fully workable, but I guess Sony is just trying make sure that all games run smoothly with the new hardware.

The 3DS will be seeing yet another bundle this holiday season if Zelda or Mario is not your thing. The bundle will include one of the Nintendogs+Cats games and a 3DS. It's the same price as a regular 3DS so the game is "free" though you have to be manly enough to enjoy a pink 3DS to get the bargain.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Even though I've been more of a Street Fighter fan, I've had nothing against The King of Fighters series. The first batch of KOF games were really good and rivaled even Street Fighter, and easily Mortal Kombat. However over the years, SNK just kept churning out more KOF games out while Capcom stuck to upgrading re-releases of Street Fighter. So SNK was sacrificing quantity over quality to say the least. How does this one fare? Better than I expected, but that's not saying a whole lot.

He stepped down from the big chair a few years ago, but he wants to go from PM to President. He was formally nominated by his United Russia party and warned the West to keep their hands off the elections.

The PS3 release on the PSN store featured all the single player from the first 3 Splinter Cell games. However developers had forgotten to add inverted aim which a lot of players use (think airplane controls but for shooting) though some do not. You can now download a new patch on PSN that will allow you to do just that. It took them two months to get this fixed?

It's hard to deny the success of the Smash Bros. series. Not only are they very fun games, but fans love it. It's hard to believe Sony or Microsoft has never really even tried to make their own Smash Bros. game. Sure they don't have the same number of mascots, but they could have come up with something. Apparently Sony might be doing just that with a rumored game called Title Fight. It apparently will feature characters like Sly Cooper, Kratos, and Parappa The Rapper. The only "proof" anyone has been able to come up with is this screenshot of a really creepy Sweet Tooth from Twisted Metal.